- 1. A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel `is' God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
- 2. As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
- 3. The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
- 4. And their might `is' firm.
- 5. In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
- 6. Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
- 7. Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
- 8. They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
- 9. They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
- 10. Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
- 11. And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
- 12. Lo, these `are' the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
- 13. Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
- 14. And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.
- 15. If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
- 16. And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,
- 17. Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
- 18. Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
- 19. How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
- 20. As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
- 21. For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
- 22. And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
- 23. And I `am' continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
- 24. With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
- 25. Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
- 26. Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.
- 27. For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
- 28. And I -- nearness of God to me `is' good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!
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